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| Answer | |
|---|---|
| What is oceanic crust made out of? | Basalt |
| What is the layer of Earth that gets the most pressure? | Core |
| What did Alfred Wegener name the giant land mass? | Pangea |
| What are plate boundries? | When two plates meet |
| What are Earths main three layers? | Crust, Mantle, Core |
| What is continental crust made out of? | Granite |
| What does a convergent boundry create, on land? | Mountains |
| What does a convergent boundry create, underwater? | Trenches |
| What does a divergent boundry create, on land? | Rift Valleys |
| What does a divergent boundry create, underwater | Mid-Ocean Ridges |
| What do divergent plates do? | Seperate |
| What do convergent plates do? | Collide |
| What does a transform boundy create? | Faults and Earthquakes |
| What do transform plates do? | Move back and forth |
| What is the process that constantly adds new material to the ocean floor? | Sea-Floor Spreading |
| Earths lithosphere are broken up into seperate sections called? | Plates |